The different faces of Parineeta

Like Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay's Devdas, his other book Parineeta has also been filmed in Hindi thrice.

And both the novels have shared the same director for one of its versions -- Bimal Roy made Parineeta in 1953 and Devdas in 1955.

The second version of the film was not named Parineeta. Instead, this Anil Ganguly film (in 1976) was called Sankoch.

Parineeta will be filmed for the fifth time in 2005 (it was also made in Bengali twice), by debutant director Pradeep Sarkar, and produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra. It stars Saif Ali Khan, Sanjay Dutt, Raima Sen, Dia Mirza and Vidya Balan.

The relation between the two families gets affected when Gurucharan is forced to repay his debt and he decides to marry off Lalita to Girin Babu (Asit Baran).

Lalita confesses that she is married, but refuses to disclose her husband's name. Meanwhile, Shekhar thinks that Lalita is cheating him, and will marry Girin Babu.

In the end, all ends well.

Director: Anil GangulyCast: Jeetendra, Sulakshana Pandit, Vikram

Plot: While Sankoch is based on the same novel, it tells a slightly different story.

Shekhar (Jeetendra) is rich man Navin Babu's son. When Shekhar and Lalita (Sulakshna Pandit) attend a doll's wedding as children, Lalita puts a garland around Shekhar's neck. He does the same, and Lalita starts thinking of Shekhar as her husband.

Then Gurucharan, Lalita's poor uncle, is asked to repay his debts. Girish (Vikram) bails him out.

Gurucharan later dies asking Girish to marry Lalita.

When Lalita gets married to Girish, Shekhar also marries a girl whom his father has selected.